Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...athletes are every bit as good, and dedicated as the ones who played in the mid-'80s, but now the talent pool has been asked to expand. The greater the demand on talent, the worse the product...
...problems of Central America began in the early '80s," he said. "With the Cold War in effect, different tensions and ideologies were played out in Central America...
...seeing social and economicrecovery," he said. "We are almost ready toovercome the situation of the '80s and move...
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Run out of London, by the Bevis Frond and his friends, who--both in the records they make and in the zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send...
Perhaps the most telling sign that even America's softest hearts are hardening is a radical reframing of the debate into terms that reject a sympathetic view of the homeless. In the '80s, the issue's leading spokesman was Robert Hayes, founder of the Coalition for the Homeless, who identified the three main causes of homelessness as "housing, housing and housing." People who challenged that thinking were accused of blaming the victims. Today the leading voices are authors Alice Baum and Donald Burnes, who claim the very word "homelessness" is a misnomer coined by activists to persuade the public that...